In a 2002 interview with The Independent, he remarked, ''I knew everyone. Aarons was always able to win the trust of his elite subjects, who saw him as close to a peer, rather than a paparazzo. In the 1950s, he opened a bureau for Life magazine in Rome, where he took pictures capturing the postwar scene.
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After the war, he moved to California and began snapping socialites and movie stars.
He joined the army at 18, shooting military maneuvers at West Point before serving as a combat photographer, for which he was awarded a Purple Heart. military magazine Yank during World War II, he contributed over the course of his career to Life, Town and Country and Holiday magazines and published several books.Īarons was born in Manhattan in 1916. Having gotten his start taking pictures for the U.S. socialites, European royalty, Hollywood stars - at play in sun-kissed locales like Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Palm Beach, as well as other luxurious settings around the globe.Ĭommitted to eschewing makeup and artificial lighting, Aarons created images that are at once candid and polished, combining the relaxed posture of his subjects, who trusted him to document their lives, with the visual sharpness of a seasoned art director. We ship regularly using Fedex Express services and shipping to all international locations is complimentary.Īmerican photographer Slim Aarons captured the 20th century’s international jet set - U.S.
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GALERIE PRINTS works directly with the Slim Aarons Estate and Archive in London, England. Produced directly from the original negative held at Archive source. Gorgeous print measuring a very large 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm's. Limited edition to 150 only, numbered and stamped In Slim's words, he photographed 'beautiful people in beautiful places, doing beautiful things'.ĭarkroom, silver gelatin Archival fibre paper photograph, Beautifully documented by Aarons throughout his prolific photography career. The image has a magical quality caused by the reflection on the wet sand and lends an abstract feel to the composition.Īnother gorgeous and typically 'Slim' photograph, it epitomises the elegant, vintage style and glamour of the period. Leverett Saltonstall Shaw watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, with a sail boat on the sand behind them and joined by their dog in Massachusetts Bay, circa 1960.